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Old 01-07-2008, 12:59 AM   #41 (permalink)
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Could you please refrain fom the use of the word "cnuts" or any derivative.
It appears to offend people unduly.

Many thanks.
Does that mean your going to delete the "Loy Toy is a incomprehensible Cnut thread"
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Don't give up DD.

If they come back again just up the anti by 10% and based on the original acceptable "to you" offer. Something to gain and only a little bit of your time and sanity lost.
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Old 01-07-2008, 01:07 AM   #43 (permalink)
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now my girlfriend is crying downstairs, tough foking shite if she is so stoopid to deal with people like this, sadly it is her sister.
Shit. I've been there many times.
What really, really makes me go ape shit is when a family member shits on a deal and then I get told "Farang big problem".
It's never they fault, always mine because I won't give them the odd 100k.

Bollocks, I need a drink now just thinking about the past
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Old 01-07-2008, 01:10 AM   #44 (permalink)
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Yeah, we are talking about a poxy bit of land that they agreed to buy, we done the deal then they changed the deal, I can't waste my time dealing with people like that, I mean if they don't want it at the price it is real easy for them to never contact me again, but fok me, I don't need these idiots giving me the runaround, I really do have a lot of work to do, and that don't include renegotitions etc.
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If you speak to them again say that you are sorry and that you didn't realise that they didn't have enough money to buy it .

I said that to a thai bloke that was fucking around on a deal.
He went crazy. He drove round to show me all his cars personally.
He came round three times, once in a Benz S class, once in a Benz E class and finally in a Nissan MPV. It was fun to waste half his day and to see his red face .
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I really cant waste my time with these people, it is a real easy decision to buy or not buy, they are trying to string the payments over 12 months or more, I don't need that, each deposit is valid for 60 days, so 10 deposits of 100k with 60 day periods, fok I would be an old man before I got all the money and then it would be worth treble that. Oky that weren't what they said, but i think that was the deal.
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This Thai wants me to sell him a motorbike. I tell him 80k and off he goes to the bank.
Comes back 20 minutes later with a pile of money. I count it and theres 60k. I say what the fok is this. He tells me I agreed 20 minutes ago to sell for 60K.
Dunno whats going on inside some of their heads but it aint normal I tell you.
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This Thai wants me to sell him a motorbike. I tell him 80k and off he goes to the bank.
Comes back 20 minutes later with a pile of money. I count it and theres 60k. I say what the fok is this. He tells me I agreed 20 minutes ago to sell for 60K.
Dunno whats going on inside some of their heads but it aint normal I tell you.
This kind of 'dishonesty' is a Thai cultural trait. it should be expected every time you deal with a Thai.

They believe there is nothing wrong with this kind of behaviour, and indeed if they can get away with it, that it was the right thing to do.

To a Thai, someone that doesn't lift a finger yet amasses a vast wealth through less than honest practices is more admired than someone that works hard every day for little reward.
The first guy is clever, while the second is stupid. Honesty and integrity are not that important when it comes to amassing wealth and status.

Different cultures, different values. It's no surprise 99% of Westerners cannot understand the cnuts.
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Old 01-07-2008, 11:10 AM   #49 (permalink)
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looks as though this deal has gone down the toilet.
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Old 01-07-2008, 12:42 PM   #50 (permalink)
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Like I told you DD, spare room, feed them frozen pea soup (ok,defrost it first) and don't do deals with Thais.

I wish you'd listen to me more sometimes.

Had a problem when we bought our house. When we had put down the deposit and it came to 60 days they said they're new house wasn't ready yet and wanted to delay until it was. how long? dunno. My wife was 8 months pregnant at the time and i wanted to move in before she gave birth so she could help with the move. In a rare moment of bilingualism, i actually spoke Thai to tell them they bloody couldn't and with all the money we were paying them they can bloody rent a house until their house was ready. Amazing thing was they actually listened to me.
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^No, I was expecting them to try and wriggle out of it... Chinese-Thai you know
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^Guy must have been doing well a few years ago, but as far as I know he has ended up selling noodles on the street.
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could be a possible front. I had a chinese maid when living in Hong Kong. Cleaned my dirty underpants an all. after a few years I found out she has properties all over HK and was one of those millionares that will hoard their money and stay in their shitty jobs,
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This Thai wants me to sell him a motorbike. I tell him 80k and off he goes to the bank.
Comes back 20 minutes later with a pile of money. I count it and theres 60k. I say what the fok is this. He tells me I agreed 20 minutes ago to sell for 60K.
Dunno whats going on inside some of their heads but it aint normal I tell you.
This kind of 'dishonesty' is a Thai cultural trait. it should be expected every time you deal with a Thai.

They believe there is nothing wrong with this kind of behaviour, and indeed if they can get away with it, that it was the right thing to do.

To a Thai, someone that doesn't lift a finger yet amasses a vast wealth through less than honest practices is more admired than someone that works hard every day for little reward.
The first guy is clever, while the second is stupid. Honesty and integrity are not that important when it comes to amassing wealth and status.

Different cultures, different values. It's no surprise 99% of Westerners cannot understand the cnuts.
^ Excellent post.

I was talking with Peterpan last week, over a few beers,and he put it something like this.

Many Thais derive no greater pleasure than to have gotten over on somebody. They will go to great lengths to weasel around trying to squeeze every lie and halftruth into a deal so they can feel clever. It's far more gratifying than integrity and a honest deal.

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Dinging bells, flashing lights, air horns, waving flags!
Sounds like a typical Thai, "I've got loads of money" gimmick.
Barge poles and smelly, rotton things come to mind.
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could be a possible front. I had a chinese maid when living in Hong Kong. Cleaned my dirty underpants an all. after a few years I found out she has properties all over HK and was one of those millionares that will hoard their money and stay in their shitty jobs,
No, they were selling the house because they needed the money. I could probably have been a bit more ruthless and squeezed him on the price and got him down by a large amount, as I'm pretty sure he was desperate.
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could be a possible front. I had a chinese maid when living in Hong Kong. Cleaned my dirty underpants an all. after a few years I found out she has properties all over HK and was one of those millionares that will hoard their money and stay in their shitty jobs,
No, they were selling the house because they needed the money. I could probably have been a bit more ruthless and squeezed him on the price and got him down by a large amount, as I'm pretty sure he was desperate.
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